Cutter



July 13, 1937. c, L, HOFFMAN 2,086,620

CUTTER Filed Oct. 17, 1934 Patented July 13, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CUTTER Clyde L. Hoffman, Waterloo, Iowa Application October 1'7, 1934, Serial No. 748,625

1 Claim.

My invention relates to improvements in cutters, and the object of my improvement is principally to shape a tool of this class with a conformation which is adapted especially for cutting through transverse slices of watermelons or similar fruits, or other flattened bodies, to remove a rind from flesh therewithin while producing an ornamental periphery to the.

removed core of the fruit as a garnishment before serving it.

Another object of my improvements is to shape the cutting member of this device with a pair of connected substantially semicircular spread open parts, plain or having crimped cross corrugations for further ornamenting the outline, and which liminary to their consumption.

I have accomplished all of these objects by the device which is hereinafter described and claimed, and Which is illustrated in Fig. l, which is a plan of the plate and the cutting edge of the tool and Fig. 2 which is an elevation of the face of the cutter member which in practise is presented toward the center of the core to be removed from its rind.

My improved cutter comprises a rigid plate I upon the upper face of which may be fixedly mounted ahollow handle member 2. This member is a metal strip shaped preferably with a loop having a medially indented projection or tongue 3, and the side portions of the handle may be substantially circular to receive more conveniently two fingers of the user when employing the tool. The terminations of the handle are turned inwardly toward each other and Welded or otherwise united with the plate I at 4.

The cutter blade 5 is preferably shaped with a like pair of substantiallyi semicircular adlongitudinal edge of the plate I.

The two semicircular portions may be smooth and uncorrugated, or otherwise bent ornamentally as desired. The medial tongue 6 which projects be tween said parts inwardly may as shown be ornamentally crimped, so that the entire outline 5 of a cut made by the blade and especially when a number of cuts are made "end to end around a core or central removed body, such as the red core flesh of a watermelon, will be ornamental and a pleasing garnishment for the core when 10 deposited on a plate for serving.

It will be seen that this tongue cuts apart from the core a pair of outwardly projecting semicircular projections which may be easily broken away for consumption initially. The spaces between these projections of the core may indicate lines of division radially of the core in separating it into convenient pieces for separate serving.

It is evident that my device may be used for cutting any other substance for which it may be suited, or when used in a succession of cuts to shape a body ornamentally in different figures as fancy may dictate. When this is done around the circumference of a circle in the substance, the terminations 8 may be employed in production of the outline by meeting to coalesce and thus effect a clear break at each such place without leaving ragged edges or irregular spaces between the combination of cuts.

The cutter 5 may, however, be shaped differently, having less parts, or even but one part, curvilinear or otherwise, whereby an ornamental configuration may be established in the core cut as desired.

I claim:

A shaping cutter for melons and the like, comprising a rigid handle, and a band blade fixed thereon, said blade having a relatively deep open medial transverse corrugated crimp, and having its parts extending therefrom shaped substantially semicylindrically and having their adjacent edges connected by one of the corrugations of the crimps, each crimp having its hollow presented to the same side, said end parts pressed into like ornamental crimps suitable for cutting the material to be shaped by repeated connected cuts in alinement to produce on the material an ornamental edge produced by the medial crimp and ornamentally shaped portions of the cutter and with their outer terminations parallel and extending away from the handle.

CLYDE L. HOFFMAN. 

